HUD

The Washington State Housing Finance Commission recently issued a memorandum summarizing proposed revisions to its low-income housing tax credit program policies for 2010.

NH&RA pleased to announce we will be returning to the Taj Hotel (formerly the Ritz-Carlton) for our Annual Boston Fall Developers Forum November 2-3, 2009. This is a can’t miss event for developers and affordable housing professionals looking to get the latest updates on state-of-the-art transactions and breaking news from the Congress, HUD and HFAs.
Online registration is now open and the hotel is taking reservations at our group rate. Click here to register online.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Director Shaun Donovan recently announced $96 million in grants to 15 public housing authorities across the country to make substantial improvements to thousands of public housing units.

The Law Firm Nixon Peabody LLP recently issued an Affordable Housing Alert on a recent HUD Mortgagee Letter. The letter implements changes to facilitate using Low-Income Housing Tax Credits with FHA loans.

HUD has issued Notice of Funding Opportunities for the following programs:

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released the latest version of its publication, U.S. Housing Market Conditions, for the second quarter of 2009.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has removed a final regulation that prohibits the use of project labor agreements in HUD-assisted construction contracts.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has delayed once more, until September 30, 2009, the effective date of a final rule entitled, Refinement of Income and Rent Determination Requirements in Public and Assisted Housing Programs.

The Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism recently published its 2008 edition of the State of Hawaii Data Book.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), recently announced that it was accepting applications for the 2010 Housing and Urban Development Design Awards Program.

The House of Representatives has by a vote of 256-168 2010 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bill.

The US House of Representative passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (HR 2454) on June 26th. This far reaching climate change legislation includes an important section on building energy retrofits (Section 202). Additionally, the legislation incorporates Representative Ed Perlmutter’s (D-Colo.) Green Resources for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods (GREEN) Act (Subtitle H).